Geraldine Guillén

My work is inspired by a metaphor I created over 6 years ago, the world of fish men, which takes place in surreal landscapes inhabited by characters with human and fish characteristics.
My surreal and poetic theory explains that humans before birth were fish men, who lived at the bottom of the ocean, which symbolizes the womb, and how at birth they are separated from their world, based on the theory "The trauma of birth" by Otto Rank, where neurosis, anxiety, and mental disorders come from birth, which is a traumatic act.

The fish men are entities without gender; that's why they wear masks, because their spirits swim, as our unconsciousness does, the place where we turn to find answers, something similar to the origin.

The technique is lost plate printmaking. I enjoy the challenge of creating color through the juxtaposition of inks, knowing that each piece is impossible to reproduce and therefore truly unique.

Geraldine Guillén engraver and painter born in Uruapan, Michoacán in 1992. Her interest in art has been genuine and without thinking about it she decides to study at the Popular Faculty of Fine Arts in the city of Morelia, graduating in 2017. She has been an active member of the Manuel Pérez Coronado Engraving Workshop (MAPECO) in Uruapan. His graphic style has been influenced by great neo-expressionist artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, the satire of José Guadalupe Posadas, or the color of Manuel Pérez Coronado, which have been important points of reference.
-University professor in graphic printing at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo.

Artistic Residencies: First graphic camp in “LA MANO GRÁFICA”. Patzcuaro, Michoacan 2017.
Meetings: 1st Meeting of mobile graphic workshops. Guanajuato 2017.
1st Miniprint Meeting (Guanajuato 2018)
Biennials:
-II Biennial Olga Costa 2020
-FEMSA Biennial 2020
Contests:
-13th Efraín Vargas state painting and print contest (2019)
14th Efraín Vargas state painting and print contest (2020)
Collective exhibitions: 20
Individual exhibitions: The Fish Men Celaya Institute of Art and Culture. June 10, 2022.
Catalogs:
-Catalogue of the Olga Costa Biennial 2021 Central West region.
Recent portfolios and collaborations:
- Ánimas (graphics workshop zalce 2019)
- The pit (Oaxaca-Michoacán collaboration)
- women engravers (holy leaf workshop Oaxaca 2019)
- MAPECO 2020 (mapeco 2020 graphics workshop)
-The new order (Pátzcuaro 2021 tacanche workshop)